October 21st: Important Rule Change for all uploaders: Paid content is now always DNP regardless of age. Please see this thread for more details.

October 19th: We recently added the ability to report posts to help ensure admin attention can be better directed to submissions that require them. See here for more details.

October 18th: Since it has come up recently: Please do not tag Pokémon or Digimon as their real world counterparts, but only as the family. Eg persian is not a cat but a feline, renamon is not a fox but a canine, etc.

This is purely to ensure that actual "real" animals can be found without having all those fantasy animals show up as well.

uploading guidelines

This is a short list of attributes we use to determine whether or not any given upload is fit for e621. Please note that the moderation team ultimately has the last word on this and that those guidelines do not encompass every possible upload.

Any submission before 2015 has been grandfathered in and does not need to reflect our current or future guidelines. In fact, there is a substantial amount of old art that would be deleted under the current guidelines, the existence of those old submissions do not validate or invalidate anything on this list.

Edits

Translating speech bubbles from any language into english is permitted, however.

We only accept an english translation and the original language, we will not host additional translations

Coloring "bases" (template images) are not permitted if they haven't been performed by the original artist of the base

we will only accept up to 5 versions of any given base

If you feel an image of yours has been deleted unfairly do not hesitate to contact us and ask for clarification.

Humans and e621:

Pure1 humans are only allowed as long as they are part of an otherwise furry centric image. If a page, or an image, of an otherwise furry centric comic contains only humans then those pages will also be kept to keep the comic complete.

As such:

Anything that does not contain anthropomorphic characters or animals as part of their focus will be deleted

If it appears like a human it counts as a human, regardless of what in-universe lore specifies

The things that make humans not-human under our rules are visible, anatomical deviations from the standard human

This means that orcs, elves, plant-people, humanoid aliens, are all fine

a different skin color does not make a human relevant

costumes, clothes, accessories, etc. do not make a human relevant

1 If any sort of non-human traits are present the character in question is no longer a pure human, but a humanoid for tagging purposes.

Advertisements:

Acceptable advertisements are those with artistic and entertainment value that far outweigh their nature to sell goods or services. Advertisements that only advertise goods and services are not acceptable and the uploader or artist will need to purchase advertisement space here instead.

'Your Character Here' auctions, censored patreon images, or other censored paysite previews are almost always unacceptable, thus expect these to get deleted

advertising your patreon or paysite in form of a signature on any given image is perfectly fine

advertising your patreon or paysite in the description of art you have created / commissioned is also perfectly fine